Quote by Jacques Barzun
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - J

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun

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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. – Madeleine LEngle

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I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary. – Jerry Saltz

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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Its great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years. – Jerry Saltz

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Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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